Before the 1992 general election, Labour leaders facing a tight race embarked on a self-abasing tour of the City of London, mocked as the prawn cocktail offensive. “Lunch after lunch, dinner after dinner, the assurances flow,” trolled Michael Heseltine. “All those prawn cocktails for nothing. Never have so many crustaceans died in vain.”
He was right: the Conservatives won a fourth consecutive victory.
